Quotes About Insight

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.

Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?